Everyone knows the new year begins in September. School supplies and class schedules, room numbers and brand-new non-scuff sneakers with the curly laces you don’t have to tie. For musicians, for orchestras, September is about new beginnings, too. Kick-off concerts and hype from the press.

I made new year’s resolutions for September 1st this year. Some of them are mundane, like “make your own lunch” and “never wear the same thing twice”, but something else I want to do is write more about music. So my Resolution, this September the First, is to write a review for every concert I see. It doesn’t need to be professional, it doesn’t need to talk about the artistry or the talent or the tuning of the scales; I want it to be Sean-from-Said-the-Gramophone-style, flashing experiential evidence. I want to practice the combination of otherwise-unrelated words for the cause of re-evoking the moment.

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